Image Compression

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Tricks used in image compression. Many of these are also used in video compression.


Chroma Subsampling

Basically use YUV420 instead of YUV444 or RGB24

Discrete Cosine Transform

Quantization

Quantization is approximating an infinite range number numbers using a finite set of discrete values.

Resources

References